The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba on Monday, unveiled a new Nigeria Police Manpower Development Policy. A statement by the spokesperson of the Force headquarters, CP Frank Mba made available to newsmen, said the IGP unveiled the policy during the decoration of 24 newly promoted Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. According to Baba, “the policy of the Force is a deliberate protocol to identify, elevate and position professionally competent officers, who will act as the strategic Police managers that will drive the new policing vision and give effect to strategies at responding to…
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Following consultations with the various parliamentary blocs on Monday, Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, designated a new premier to deal with the country’s economic hardships, the presidential palace said. Najib Mikati, 66, a billionaire businessman who has served twice as premier in 2005 and 2011, received 72 votes, the amount needed to be tasked with forming a new cabinet. Mikati, who hails from the northern port city of Tripoli, was named by the country’s major parliamentary blocs, including the pro-Iranian Hezbollah Shiite movement. The Christian Lebanese forces and Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement did not name any candidate for the post. The…
A three-day international conference on the eruption of mega-churches in the Global South opened at Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Redemption Camp, Km 46, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on Monday. The conference with the theme, “Imaging Mega Churches In The Global South And Beyond: Trends, Trajectories and Impacts, was jointly organised by RCCG and U.S based John Templeton Foundation. The countries in the Latin America, Sub-Sahara Africa and the Asian Pacific areas are referred to as the Global South. Speaking at the opening ceremony, General Overseer of the RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, stressed the need to explore the reasons why churches in the…
Young Nigerians totalling 20 million would be impacted with digital skills through an initiative of the Federal Government and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed on Monday, in Abuja. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement, said this was part of a pre-recorded message delivered by the vice president at the official launch of the Generation Unlimited (GenU) programme in Nigeria. GenU is a global, multi-sector partnership initially launched in September 2018, in collaboration with over 200 partners, and impacting over 100 million young people globally, through innovations and programmes in more than…
The Vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says that the COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunity for stakeholders in all sectors of the economy to embrace innovation and creativity. Osinbajo made this known at the 14th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Association of Energy Economics, in Abuja, on Monday. The theme of the conference is “Strategic Responses of Energy Sector to COVID-19 impacts on African Economies”. Represented by the Special Adviser on Infrastructure, Mr Ahmad Zakari, Osinbajo said the oil and gas sector most hit by the pandemic would be better off with all stakeholders coming together to strategise on new ways to…
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has advised the federal government to take steps to avert another nationwide strike by the union. The UNN chapter Chairman, Dr Christian Opata, gave the advice in an interview in Nsukka on Monday. Opata spoke against the backdrop of the recent threat by ASUU to resume the strike suspended on Dec. 24, 2020. He described federal government’s failure to fulfill agreements entered with the union since 2009 as unfortunate. He said that federal government would not be exonerated “if the union resumes another strike because…
The Chief Executive Officer, FMDQ Group, Mr Bola Onadele, says that the global private equity Asset Under Management (AUM) has hit $4.50 trillion in the last 10 years. Onadele disclosed this at the Coronation Merchant Bank interactive session webinar with the theme: “Capital mobilisation through the private markets,” on Monday in Lagos. Onadele, in his keynote address at the webinar, said that part of these global funds was finding their way into Africa, especially Nigeria. He, however, urged private companies in Nigeria to tap into the opportunities in the market for growth and development. “As is the case in global…
Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday fixed Sept. 29 for judgment in a suit filed by Slok Nigeria Limited against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Slok, which is owned by former Governor of Abia, Orji Uzor Kalu, is seeking the court order restraining the EFCC from retrying the firm and its chairman (Kalu) in the the alleged N7.1 billion fraud case. Justice Ekwo fixed the date after counsel to the parties adopted their processes. While the EFCC is the 1st respondent in the case filed by the company, Kalu and his former Director…
The Nigerian Navy (NN) says that eight ships, two helicopters, Maritime Domain Awareness facilities and elements of the NN Sea Boat Service (SBS) will participate in the ‘Ex Beni Kekere’ sea exercise. The Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Eastern Naval Command, Rear Adm. Sanusi Ibrahim, said this on Monday in a statement signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Commander Thomas Otuji. The Joint Eastern and Central Naval Commands had inaugurated the sea exercise in Port Harcourt, Rivers. Rear Adm. Ibrahim said that the sea exercise would also include anti-piracy operations, protection of oil facilities, as well as search and rescue operations. “The exercise nicknamed…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations say access to vaccines, digital infrastructure and women and youth inclusion, will propel economic prosperity in Africa. This was disclosed in a virtual conversation entitled: “It’s Your Turn! Africa’s Recovery Talk Series” hosted by Mrs Vera Songwe, UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Monday. High-level participants at the conversation were: Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the UN. Okonjo-Iweala said Africa was doing well before the COVID-19 and gave an all-African approach to…